Theophilus Dixon

Theophilus Dixon (1811-1878) was an African-American Methodist preacher from Augusta, Georgia.

Biography
Theophilus Dixon was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1811, and he was born into slavery; he was later freed along with his parents, and he followed in his father's footsteps by taking up faith as his career. He became a Methodist preacher, and, by 1836, he was one of just 15 black priests serving a city which was 44.4% black. While he was a political conservative due to his religious views, he supported abolitionism, and he supported the Whigs. He lived to see emancipation in 1865, and he died in 1878.